1906 Food & Cookery and the Catering World

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Rebound, Very Scarce

Volume X of this work, featuring all twelve monthly issued for the year 1906.

Both single issues and bound volumes of 'Food & Cookery and the Catering World' are very scarce.

These issues feature articles on culinary techniques, recipes, menu planning ideas, profiles of famed chefs, and even adverts for catering equipment and food suppliers, with the work aimed at both domestic cooks and catering professionals.

With vignette illustrations throughout.

Rebound in cloth, with the publisher's original front wrap bound in.

With the bookplate of Martin and Pamela Finch to the front free endpaper. They were antiquarian booksellers with an interest in antiquarian gastronomy.

With discussion of methods of cooking and preparing turkeys, of Chinese restaurants, of 'foods and cookery from the colonies', this is a fascinating insight into early 20th century culinary trends.